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Re: Beyond the Library: rtl11? (Racing to Oblivion/Crushed to Oblivion)
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Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:44:05 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Schilling writes:
> > Hey, that's another good idea for the drag racers. Find a non-busy sidewalk
> > near a very busy street, and run the racers so they have to stop before
> > rushing out into the street! Racing to oblivion/Crushed to oblivion!
> >
> > Now THERE's incentive to stop in time!
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> It'll be like that scene in Toy Story. Man, those movies scare me.
> Especially that kid who mangles his toys next door.
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> Calum
I had an idea last week (i actually did! honest!) but the post got lost
somewhere...
We take the gray tables, collapse the legs, put them on the floor (gray side
up, of course).
We can then organize the tables in a 'maze like' fashion, like an 's' shape
or something.
We take black electrical tape and put 2 parallel lines on the tables,
traversing all the tabletops, and ending with a 1 foot white electrical tape
line before the final edge (where, presumably if the robot went too far, it
would fall off the edge and fall 3 inches to the floor)
The competition would then be for the 'bots to follow the black electrical
tape across the gray tabletops, and stop when they reach the white
electrical tape. whoever stops first on the white and doesn't fall off the
table wins.
This combines the line following and the race.
If you wish to modify this competiton with other ideas suggested previously...
Put a gap between a few tables, like 4-8 inches. When the 'bot gets to
these gaps, it will have to traverse them and continue following the line.
and/or
put a popcan (dave's always bringing up the popcans!) at the end of the
run--the 'bot has to pick up the can, turn around and make it back to the
starting line (where, presumably there would be another bit of white
electrical tape, and the stopping/falling off would be the same as before.
and/or
put a few cans thru the course of the run and the 'bot has to pick up all of
them and bring them to the end.
Too complicated? 2 straight lines across a few tabletops good 'nuff?
Just throwing it out there
Stay safe
Dave
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